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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1864-03-22

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1 -A. . '. , W 'A. i A i "1 . A. A ) . ' f, J ' f . . i " L- , --8 1 , i, i ' A T J ' 1' - V 1 V tr .1 -J J, i V n ." 4' 'A. VOL AV ,. ; V MOUNT VERNON KlU'lBLtyAN, TERMS: t ' For ono year (invariably in advance)$2,00 Fur six mouths. . 1,W "7;'j TEaMS OF ADYEBTISINO. (One square, 8 weeks, 1,00 pno squui-o, 3 months, . , 8,00 One square, 6 months, ' , .. . ,50 One square, 1 year, , G,00 Ono square (changeable monthly) 10,00 Oliangeablo wockly, 15,00 Two squares', 3 weeks, . . 1,75 Two squares, 6 weeks, , , 8,25 Two squares, 3 months, ' 8,25 Two squares, 6 months, ' - ' " 6,75 Two squares, 1 year, 8,00 3'hrco squares, 8 waek.s, '. 2,50 Three squares, 6 weeks, 4,50 Three squares, 8 months, 6,00 Three squares, 6 months, ' 8,00 Three squares, 1 yenrt" '-' ' 10,00 Due-fourth column, chan. quarterly,1 15,00 One-third ..' 22,00 Ono-hnlf " ' " 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 ;:' 7.:" "FALL IN." . Fccj sec; yon gleaming liuo of light, , , Tke onemyV bayonots bristle bright ! t), boys, there'll be a fight to-night, Fall in! ' . . ; ,,7 . Jnder theso woods of frozen 'arch, " ' . Tinder the night sky's icy arch, It ends at last, the dreadful march; - Fall in! Fall in ! no bivouao to-night; Beneath tho stars so still and bright, The bristling bayonots glitter whito; Fall in ! Fall in ! we're hungry, bruised and torn. With snow and ruin, beatpn and worn, ( Yet "ready for duty," we've proudly sworn, Tallin! A seeded of Praams 1 Under our ayes, 0 see, how softly scoiu to rise, Tho hills of homo, aud her summer skies'. ' Fall in ! 0, say, for home? for tho fair face prest, Close to the, heart 'ncatk tha ruggql uesti The facetof.tho ona wo love tho best; Fall in! f), say., Tot a flash the brown face pale, The quick young uerves iu their warm , We quail, To wee the thud of the leadco hail f Fall in! The storm of f hell and bullets whirr, The clash of sabre no fear can stir; Tho fight for freedom, for home, for her 1 FaU in J- ' ' v '"' Ever with steady stop we go, IVith rifles roady in serried row, Into tl)3 face of the insolent foe, Fall in ! Cur hearts up-lcap in passionnte pain, O, see, thoy fall our heroic slain, The enemy's masses charge and gain; .Fall in!, ,. Fall in 1 the eager buglo beatj , Fall in I march on, with prescient feet, Sn it,) low the foe whero tho armies meet; Fall in ! ' ''. . " . . . To front ! its ranks are red and thin, Tho victor flauuta his banner of sir; O, comrades, forward ! to dio. or win: . Fall in I M. C. A. ' Compliment to Counti y Boys. One of the leading business men of our itywhoh"s accumulated over a milliou f dollars and is building a roside'ieo cost- ing'a quarter of a million paid ono of the 1.1 atet ofl'-hnnd compliments to country l iys that could be bestowed.' He i was tu king of business matters generally and a iiung other thiogs sprko of clerks and ihf scareity of good solid young mon oc- ?.if onod by tho war. He siid that thero wcte plenty of young men in fino cloth cal ingfor situations but they did sot suit ih m. He preferred a very diflfcront kiud ot stock that come from the country in rivgh clothes, for something coulof.be ni: de out of them. But such young men h d generally gone into the army, while ti e more pretending olass that have more c cthes than brains have remained behind. ; e spoke of country boys that soon made c erku worth fifteen hundred or two thou- si nd a year, and yet who had volunteered out of a sense of duty, but whose eommuta-- ..n t, ..m i. i i hem had h i not felt it wrong to influence i am against the service of their country. ''. he best he could do Wan to say to thmii ; at it they como back to his employ wtili-u t any bad habits, he would receivo them u; advanced salaries. ; .. . , - Let no country boys," there foro, think tin t it is 'neccssarr to imita'to tho young t'i. ocs of the towu io dress and frivolous h. I its toinsure respect and good situations.' It s plain industrious youn persons, of g'.id souse, sober habits, and foraplous hi'iesty that are in demand with all solid tu. Ties men. No matter how poor, or uw lueaV your Jc!othe, if you have the pti cnal qualities above indicated the true bub boss man will sood pcrceire them and give you the preference, Cin. Gaicltc. "I pncsi you are right, in taking , that vicw o((ha case," sqid M Bartop. ' 1 ' i Aristocracy v Democracy. I has often been found that far-sighted minds see at a distanoe what, perhaps, thoy might not see so well if nearer. PcTocqueville certainly gave a better analysis of our Institutions, and closer predictions of their tendencies, than any American ever did; and now Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden, at the late great meeting at Rochdale, have made some points Which ought to be brought to the notice of very American Noath and South. Could our Northern masses see the truth as these true English Domocrats do, tie Rebellion would be crushed in three months. Could the five millions of laboring whites at the South, who are fighting to confirm the yoke of two hundred thousand slaveholders (or loss) upon thoir own necks, see- it, the j would hail our armies as delivers.And yet, strange anomaly, tho allies at the North of tho slave aristocracy dare to oall themselves Domocrats, and under that disguise to mislead tho laboring men of this country. Let every working man pondor well the eloquect words of the two great Democrats of England, John Bright and Richard Cobden, who see that the North is now fighting tho battle of Domooracy for the whole world. ' ' AN ARI8TOCRATIO REBELLION. Eitraot from Mr. Cobden' 8pach at BochiUle, Kor. 'lb, I863.J "Is it not astonishing that in tho face of faets like these that any one should have the temerity, with any regard to decency and self-respect, to get up in the House of Commons and say that secession has been upon a question of free trade and protection Lcughter. Well, this is a war to perpetuate and extend human slavery. It is a war not to defend slavery as it was left by their ancestors, I mean a thing to bo retrained and to bo apologised for, it is a war to establish a slave empire, loud cheers, where slavery shall be made the osrncr-stono of tho social system, whero :t s'jallbe defended and justified on scriptural and on ethnological grounds. "Well, I sa3-. God pardon tho men who, in this yoar of grace 1803, should think that such a pro ject as that could bo crowned with success. Cheers. Now, you know that I have, from tho first, never bolicved it possible that the South couldsucceod, a.id I have not founded that faith meroly upon moral in stincts, which teach us to repudiate the very :dea that anything so infernal should euc coed. No, it is becauso in this world the virtues and. the forces go together, and the vices and the weaknesses aro inseparable Applause It is therefore, that I felt certain that this project never could suc ceed. For how is it? Here is a conimun ity with nearly half of its population slaves, where every working man is a free man It is as though Yorkshire and Lancashire wero to ontcr into conflict, and it was understood that in tho case ef one all the la borers who did tho muscular work of the country, whether in the fiel I or in the factory, whether in the rords or in the domestic establishments in the. ono case you would have all tho bone and muscle the sinow of tho country, eliminated from the fighting population, and tot only eli minated from tho fighting population, but ready to take advantage of this war either to run away or fight against you. How could a community so circumstanced fight against a neighboring conntry whero ovcry working man was fighting for his country how could tho ono have a chance if left to physical force wi thout the moral considerations? That is tho condition in which these two sections of tho United States are now placed. In the one case you have a condition in which labor is hdld honorablo. Dave we not heard it used as a reproach by some people who fancy themselves in alliance with the aristoeracy some of our writers who would lead us to supposo they are of the aristocratic order? Now we hear it used ai a stigma against the North that their president, Mr. Lincoln was a "rail splitter." But what docs that prove with regard to the United States, but that labor is held in honor in that country. Hear, hear. And with such a conflict going on, and with such a result as I feel no doubt will follow, is it fair to speak of such a contest as that, and say that it is a struggle for empire on the ne s'de, and for inde- pecdenu'eo on tho other; Loud applause. 1 say it is an aristocratio rebellion nRainst democratic Government. rChoers.1 That is the title I would givo to it; and in M hiBtory when you have had the aris-iocracy pitted jgainst tho pcoplo iu a physical force contest, the. aristocracy have always gone down under the heavy blows of the democracy." '. Cheers. ". AN INSTRUCTED DEMOCRACY. (Extract from Mr. Brlght't apwoli at Rooclidnle, ..... J'ot. 23,180 Look at the' power which the United States have developed. They have brought more men into the field, built more ships fjr their navy, they have shown groater ; ' ' - i i ' ! ' MOUNT: resources than any nation in Europo is capable of. Look at tho ordor which lias prevailed. Their elections, at which as you see by the papers 60,000 or 100,000, of 1 quarter of a million perse ns voted, in a given State nre conducted with less dis order than you have Been lately in three of the smallest borough! in England hear Barnstaple,Vindsor and Andover. Laughter and cheers. Look at their in dustry. , Notwithstanding this . terrible struggle, thkir agriculture, their manufuo tures, and commerce proceod with an un interrupted success; and they are ruled by a president, not chosen, it is true, from some worn outroyal or noble blood hear, but from tho people, and whoso truthfulness and spotless honor have gained him universal pra;so. Loud cheers. The country that has ben villified through half the organs of tho pross in England during tho last three years, and has been pointed out, too, as an example to be shun ned by many ot your statesmen, tlfat country, now in -mortal strife, affords a heaven and a homo for multitudes flying from the burdens and the neglect of the old government of Europo. Cheers. And when this mortal strife is over, when peace is restored, when slavery is destroy ed, when tho Union is cemented afresh for I would say in tho languagn of enc of her own poots, addressinghis country, Tbe grave's Dotting whore traitor handa shall lay in fearful aula thy muraared oorsa away. Loud cheers. then Europe and England may learn that an instructed democracy is the surest foundation of government, and that, education and freodom are the only sources of true greatness and true happiness among any people? The honorable member sat down, amid continued cheer ing. Compensation for doing Eight. ' The Baltimore American opposes the demands of the slaveholders of Maryland who ask payment for their slaves that may bo emancipated, on the ground that they have enioved already, for a number of yents, privileges which' existed in violation of right, aud that they ought to be Batisficd with their gains in the past,without pleading for damages. It likencs their caso aptly, to that of the proprietors of gamb' linghouses, which wero once authorizd but afterwards suppressed, by law in France. It would be monstrous to say that the keepers of these gambling hells could justly have claimed compensation for their "losses" from tho honest labor ing people of France. So of the slave holders, says tho American: if the Fronch government had suppressed private gamb' ling housos only to secure a monopoly of similurdcns carried on by the nation, then the private owners might have had a case, but not otherwise. "We do not propose to take private property for public use. We simply pro pose to discontinue those laws, eoacted for the boncfit of slaveholders, whereby we secured to them the power of tho State to sustain a system of oppression. ' Because they choose to tako advantage of such laws it docs not follow that the innocent portion of tho community, which did not choose to invest in slave, should be com pelled to pay so dearly foj the privilege of making free institutions. "Slavery is a political insti tution, the creation of the law1 and subject at any time to bo repealed out of existence Tho Constitution describes it not as property, but as a "relation." This 'relation' does not constitute a property; it is simply a right to disposo of the labor of the slave coupled with the duty of caring for him. It is in fact a contract resulting from the arms of tho law. The law ceases to rccog- tnizo that form of contract for labor, and both slave and master find it neaossary to resort to tho ordinary method. Tho 'relai tiou ceases to exists, but no property is thereby destroyed. Tho admission of the right to compensation in such cases would eternally clog the wheels of human prog ress. JNo reformation ot society could take place without the permission of tUe beneficiaries of the obnoxious system in tended to be removed." What the American thus asserts of slay cry iu Maryland is true of tho institution in all parts in the Union. It existed only by virtue of special laws, which protected a very small portion of the people in the exercise of an oppressive privilege. The exercise of this privilege is found to be injurious to tho general welfare, fatal to publio order and morality, and inimical to the Union on which rest law and order, and the future liberty and welfare of this continent. Slavery is proven, af.er many years' trial, to be a pestiferous breeder of violence, immortality, unlaw I ul ' ambition and treson. Therefore, tho American peo pic, made wise by puncring, tako away from this mischievious privilege theproto tioa it has had from the laws and at once it fulls to the gronnd Unless he has the whole power of tho stato at his ' tack, a slaveholder is helpless to catch his runaway slave; for not only has he no recognized riL-ht to kidnap, but all humane and Chris tian persons are ready to stand between him aud the man who wants to bo l'reo, It would be absurd to say that a commu nity or a cation has not a right to prelect itself against an eil which attacks 'its life; but it would od foolish to leava that protection or guard imperfect. T If svavery i biuuiu. w. iu, vuioD, vnu to ttie VJ5RN0N; OHIO .TUESDAY, :)AUCiI !':.', I8C4. properly i I ml . advancemen' of the states, . then it U our duty as a nation, to adopt every measure, without dulay, to butiihh tho system forever Ironi our realm. We have freed the slnvcx under tho war-power; the Btatos, as they return to their allegiance, prepare to adopt anti-slavery constitutions; and tho nation should crown tho work by enacting that under the Constitution, which is the supreme hw of the laud.no human being shall ever bo held as a slave iu this country. Thus we can clinch the uail; and if the loyal mon ot the slave staten aro to be believed, freedom and loyalty are not sale in the south till the natiou has thus formally and forever banished slavery. Ar. V. Evening 1'ott. . Soldiers, Eapt and West. The Western Statos have shown commendable alacrity in filling' up their quotas as pallod for genorally without tho re quiremunt of a draft. They havo volun-tcrrcd promptly and fought nobly, aud all patriotio voices are louu in their praise. But it is not sufficiently considered that wo have to-day a Vory largo for o afloat, rocruitcd wholly by volunteering, and almost entirely from tho loyal seaboard States New York aud Now England have certainly not less than Fifty Thousand men today in the naval service of their country; mid have subtracted just so much from the fighting force of those States. In other words, if these had not bceu needed on water, they would havo largely swelled our contribution to the land forces of the Union It dooi not seem to be sufficiently con sidered that tho proportion of young mon that js, of persons between 20 and 45 years of age is much greater in the West than in the East. Thus, where there aro 150 males between 25 and 45 years of ago out of evory thousand inhabitants in Rhode Island or Vermont, there will be at least two hundred and fifty males between those ages to the thousand inhabitants in Illinois or Kansas. Hence, certain Copperhead organs aro perpetually parading an alleged disparity between the number required from each Congressional District iu the East and in the West respectively, m also in this city and in the rural districts ofom Stato. Tho well-known reason is that the City f nd tie Young West aro relatively full of young men, whom enterprise has drawn thilher from their father's farms in rural New York or New England. Vermont and Northern New York aro respec tively the parental homes of thousands of our youth who have volunteered from this City and from the Northwest. In every case, tho proportion of the able-codied population called out is exactly the same; but whore half the young men born in one section havo migratod to othor sections, they will be drafted from the latter, which will send a larger number (though no lar get proportion) of its inhabitants to the war than will the homes of their childhood This is tho simple and conclusion explanation of a discrepancy which disloyalty has sought to pervert to its own base ends. iV. Y. Tribune. Tbe Talk About Candidates. The New Bedford Mercury is reminded by tho New York Tribune's manifesto against the rcnomination of Mr. Lincoln, of tho remark by Theodore Parker, tho American edition of his life, that "Greeley is not fit for a 'eadcr. Ho is capricious, crotchety, full of whims and wrong head' ed." Tho Mercury then adds the following sound comments on the general question "We do not proposo to get into any heat in retorence to the question ot the next Presidency. The Baltimore Convention in Tune next will settle who is to be the candidate of tho Uuion Republican party, and he will have our cordiul support. But wo aro very decidedly of tho opinion now, that it is wise to let well enough alone that, as Mr. Lincoln has been patriotic, hor.est and fiithful. deserving of all, tho plaudit 'well done, good and fuith- lul servant, it is tor the interest ot the na tion, instead of trvin? whether Homebody else might not do better, to continue him in omce. Added to this are other reasons of which we may speak hereafter; but one., conclusive to our minds, is, that the people, who have no particular axes to grind, who are not solicitous for a new deal of offices, and a new distribution of contracts, prefer Abraham Lincoln, as the next candidate How to Polish Shirt Bosonn, A correspondent of the American Agri culturist gives the following direction iu reply to the complaint of "Mrs. Pry," who can not make her nusbanu s suirt Losoms and collars look nice, for poli -thing linen as it is done iu tho chops. Ho seems to know a good deal about it, for a man. "iho first thing is to wash them clean then starch. . A lit t'o puro spermaceti or dissolved gum Arabic in tho starch will improve it, but havo the starcli thick, and work it into the linen thoroughly, , When in a proper condition, uso the common sad iron to emoth them and get them into shape the same as though thoy were not to be polished. I woifli say you can not polish linen on a soft cloth. Take a pioce ot hard wood (I use birch) say ton by fourteen inches, or size of ft shirt bosom, and piano it even and smooth. When you uso tho polishing iron lay tho linen en the board, without any cloth uudemcat b: . a liberal supply pjf el.boat grcaso is iodispeu- taoio to uiuko tue uuAj iuok erst rate. . . THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN,'" A clever old woman,' A funny old woman, 1 ""A wonderful woman, ' ; '' A very uncommon ' 1 '' ' Good-nuturcd old woman was she; ' And the apples she sold, ' And the stories she told,' To young and to old,' : 1 ' . Through lieut and through cold, Were us fuLiiy and nice as could be. Spring, summer; and autumn, And winter she brought 'em, ; And all the boys bought 'era, ; . Because they all thought 'em ,, ; , The cheapest and nicest on earth; And becauso 'twas a troat, While wo waited to eat Ilor apples so sweet, To hear her repeat . Her talus, full of humor and mirth. At the corner of tho street, An old box for a scat, With a mat for her feet, And an awning complete, 'Neath a broad-spreading cotton umbrolia, She was thcra all tho day, Knitting, knitting awuy, With a kind word to say To all who would pny For her apples so rich and so mellow. Always early and late, With her luseious freight, And her knitting sedate; On thd corner she sate ' la all sorts of weather and times, With old Mothor Mack; Trade never was slack,-' Her stock knew no lack, ' And sho had a strange knack Of getting our pennies aud dimes. Merry' Museum. For tlio American Messongof. What A Little Flower Said. ""nil many a flower in born to blush unseen, And wiuu its sweetness on the uuert lir." a poet many years ago. IJut , i;tti ,., ; .l.J So sang there was one littlo, flower, born in the desert and brcathiug, out its fragrance which was not useless, , It caved a valu-able'lifo, and taught a striking lesson. M nngo Park the traveller and discovery in Africa found himself sick, weary, and sat down in a desert place to die. There was no friend to comfort him, no food to nourish him, no kind voice to cheer him. He thought of Scotland his dear hotii0 far away. Ho thought of his frionds, and exclaimed, "O God, must I die here alone in this desert waste?" Despair seized upon lim. He had not strengtU,to rise. Just at that moment his eye cough, sight of a tiny flowor. He looked at it inhaled, its fragrance, and admired its beauty. It boo mod to say, "Listen to mo. I am alive hero in this desert, God made mo. and sent mo hero to npeak to you. I live in this lonely soot, and why may not you ? Does God take more care for me. a little flower, than for no, a littlo flower, than for you, an immortal man? Chcor up; don't give way to despair. Trust in Providence and make ono more effort to live; for if God so clothes tho grast of tho field, will ho not much more care for you?" : Such was tho sermon which this little flower preached to Mungo Park. Ho listened to it. The weary and despairing man took heart. Ho thanked the little flower tor the sermon. Perhaps he kissed it. Then made ho another effort to rise and pursue his journey, believing that God had still a blessing in storo for Lint. He had not proceeded fur cro tho sound of a fcmalo voice, singing one of her wild, melodies, saluted his ear. It drew nearer Soon he saw a native woman bearing a jar of wator. With instinctive fear sho at first drew back; but seeing bis sick aud wayworn appearance, she smiled upon him offered him drink,' and conducted lum ' to her cot, where she gave him milk and veg etables. ' The great traveller, after this re freshment, laid his tired body on the floor, aud sho sang him to sleep with one - of those wild impromptu melodies peculiar to those natives. So the littlo flower was ' not "born to blush unseen," nor did it "waste its swee-nsss on the desert uir." It was a memcnt 'o of God's presenco nnd , providence. Jl saved a precious life by its silent but im ' rcssivo teachings. .Who could have l. 1.1 iL... ... II il. !.. - !..-... 1 1 iiuu-'ub mm. t'l email a mini; iu no uuseurc I i place, a thing so frail; so soon to die, could have been an -instrument in Hod's j hands of saving man's life? Yet the was its mitsion. , j tie, a march, o." any important event of ' So the weakest and, the frail est may do! the war, whero tho friend of our cause, the tbmething for God aud . man. , Let the black man has not been found truthful flower preach to us, as it did to Purk. Hjand helpful, and always devotedly lo;al. will tell us never to deepnir, never to "do-1 spiBe tho day of small thing." It will ro-buke tha feeling which says, "lam noth- ng. : What good can I do in the world 7 I am so obscure, bo neglected, souonotiod that wy influence is nothing." h, bain ..' I ! f - ! - nJ--tV-r listen U thul flower. I rSowaid mit that tiny limit hid fur away iu the desert. It waited iU opportunity. It was willing toblwmi and breathe without any eye kave (jod'a to look upon it. Wheu the opportunity came, it spoke; and what words of comfort and encouragement it uttered. Be like that flower iu your paticut waiting, in your accepted obscnr ty. What though you bloom not iu the grand .cardan of souio rich man, where many pyu.4 come to admire and many tiiiguo to raise your bounty. If you aro where God has planted you, stay there in meek endurance and tihed your odors to his praise, Should 4ome poor sufferer cross -your path nnJ cist a dejected look upou you, be rcud with some cheering word. Speak to him of God's love and mercy, and thus scud him ou his way rejoicing. Never say that you are too small or too obscure to do Buy thing for God or man. Remember too that lis who made the flow or and cares for it, cures also for you Have you thought of this? Have you acknowledged your dependence and been thankful? Liko that flower, you flourish iu the morning, but ure cut dowu iu tli" uveniir. Have you laid ' this to " heart. and miulo line preparation foi uternity ? This tiny flower rabuked the despair of the sufferer, vnd t.iught him to put his trust in God. Uow oftou have wo been tempted to exclaim, "God hath forgotten us-" Bui how often has he nppoared fur us when deliveranco or help soumeJ impossible. ; Tho littlo flower rccms to say, '-If God so clothe nie, wilf ho not much more clothe you, Oyc of little faith." Tiujx the C'ui d I Pi,r. A Birthday Present- "Mi t' er,whcn you in ike me n y 'lirthdny Present will vou please give mo a part ot it in money?" "Why so, my sou?" "I waut to subscribe for Tho Child,s Paper or the American Messenger, I don't caro much which.' "You alruudy have a copy of each, which your father subicr.bsd tor; why suuld y u wish for uioroi" 'Moilicr, 1 will tell you, I want to ire it to John Page.., "What, to that liny who tie;ijcd you so unkindly a few days a,()i aI1 j yuU Slli,l vim Would 'never speak to him again?' "Yes, dear mother." '"What has .produced this great change produced tins great chan-'e in voiir feelings?" James cast dou his I eye's for a moment, as if thiukiug huw to explain himself, and thou said, "I have j felt tery tarry for saying thut and for feetl wij to John, tot lie hits no kind mo.hcr to teach him, as I have; and when ti prayed last night, i remembered I mm not furyte intj those who 'trespassed azainst mo,' Lor Living my enemies, as Christ tells us to; and I felt that I had no right to expect God wou d forgive me my sins. Thou I determined to try and 'do good' to John and wholly forgive him. Then I folt hap py, and went to sleep. Now, mother, will you grant my recjuest?" "Yes, my dear boy, with great p'easure for 1 cannot tell you the happiness it give? me to find that your conscience is tenderly alive to the scuso of duty, and that yon arc actuated py the spirit of Christ. Bo ever thus guidod, my ton, and God will bices you. Hut why doyou wish to give ono of these papers to John; 'Hecaiihe I think there is so much in them to teach boys, aud that he would be more likely to read a paper than he would any book, even the liible, which aouie day I mean to try and iuduce him to study." HLU. The Army Become Abolitionists. Gen Garfield, of Ohio, in a speech delivered on the 2Sth of January in the Httise of Representatives, on the confiscation question, gave this account of the progress of opinion in the army of the Coiled States, of which ho was lately an officer. "Iromeniber ti havo said to a Irirnd when I entered the army, 'You hate silvery; so do I; but I hate disunion more. Let us drop the slavery iiestion and fight tosustuiu the Union. When the supremacy of the government has beenre-ulab-lishod, wo will attend to tho other question.""I started out with that position taken in good faith, as did thousands of othet of all parties. But the phantom met it every, where, in the camp, in the bivouac, ou tb, buttle field, and at all times. It was a ghost that would not be laid. Slavery was both the strength and weeklies of the enemy- Mb strength for it tilled his fields and fed his legious; his weakness for iu the harta of slaves dwelt dim prophecies that their deliverance from bondage would be the outcnniit of the w r. "Tho negroes cuuio from the cotton field thoy swain rivers; they climbed mountain!-they la mo through jungles, in the dark- 1 .., ..P.I , . . ... .. uess auu sinrnis ui lie iilL'lit. to tell ut 1 II I the enemy was coining hero or comint thero. They wero our trim friends it: every ewe. There Iiim hardly been a but The c.Tnvietion fmnml itMlfnnnn ifn. of every soldier that, behind the rebel army of soldics, the black army of laborers wus feeding and sustaining the rebellion, and there 0011101 be no victory till its main sup. port be taken awsy, a NO -20 ;. r I, -ifT-ii.im-i r.riixsaani "0(l Iriiiotron the Mhr sidej font tu I-me Unit this fs all abolition War. It jot pliwKfl to say so I prant it TLe rapid current of events has inada the array of tho republic an ulmlitlog army. I cab Smith the rnnks a thousand men who aro ia; favor of sweeping away skuory to every doXeu that dcslftj to prererva It. They liavit been where they havd Seen its male? olence, its baleful effect upon the country and the Union, and they demand that it shall bo swept away ; 1 1 - ' , , A Curiosity. : . , Last week w fotiud a diamond in. the, gutter. Here it 1 a plect of brightness, aud beauty picked out of tho sewer. Item nl'taji who ahull say that silkeopurubs may n t le made out of sew's entt? . ' "Wo aould thcroforeioaruiistly call tho attention of Congress to the faot that this U only one way id which this slavery qurt tion may be deeiaively and permanently settled by universal emancipation, and that now is the epiwtuuity fjr this great achievement. This way is-pointed ot in the Federal Constitution, and is Blm'pty-an amendment of that instrument, (tWar- inj Slauery abvlahrd throughout the VnileJ SMet. ' . :: .'' m " , ' . "Here, (hen, the amendmehUiiggeatod, passed by a two thirds vote in ach Hour of Congress, and ratified by the legislature" or by convention of three fourths of the. Suites in the Union, will abolish slavery at once and forever throughout the length aad broadth of the land. And why att The Institution, so long as it exist, j can never be any thine hereafter except asourca of mischief to all concerned It wefylnti tu the South it Jettroyed; t'U antfr, oe a founQiTof It'tleTTcateri, ore dt tKat 'Jt kit of it. Let Congress paw the amendment indicated, with a reasonable compensation to loyal slaveholders, and tho rati-. fication of the States will soon follow. . .. ... r "Lct'Congress. then, apply the remedy . ansreooJ, and, belore the eud ottbo year Una vexing uu perplexing qucsuou oi I clavery may bo settled conjtitutionallly,) ' doeisivoly, aud forever. j only way to settle it. So ! ahanow of u dpunt that tli or can there be a 1 ananow oi u uoum mm mo iu wnv this ball in motion in Conpres will be the coiumonding spirit of the Union restored, Leading Editorial m Ncio York IleraU ; Ee l (i. . , . . ; -, Numb. "I'm numb all over. My hand! an V feet tall asleep with out a moment's warn ing. What does it mean?" asked a la. , of uio the other day. 1 looked at her Jo amuzement. Could she possibly be so ob- tune as not to know the price she paid for nature's broken laws? "Mrs.," said I, iu a spirit of Chriatian frankness, "you arc living too fast. Five nights at the theatre this WJek, and five late suppers! Xature is givimryou a gentle hint. By ami by she will give you a blow, if you do not mend your ways." The woman colored, and said nothiug. Her face wa haggard with what sho callod her harmless dissipation. She had two little ones in a northern city, and all around her in Washington were sick and dying soldierrs; yet. she could not live, she said, without jhe , excitement of tho Stage. Kmb. That tells tho whole story. Thousands liko this poor woman are prei- ' ing on in the broad and downward way, beuumbed sul and bodyjby the overpani-pering of the cnses. Toe Spikits Hkatkk at their Tricks. An ingenious optician iu London h constructed au constructed an instrumcn', ' by means of which he executes all sorts of writing on the wal rapping undr the ta- ; lie, aud ti e various other startling pttr , formitnces which ennuing impostors 11-seribe to the agency of spirits. A hiU'l appears on tbe i-tinvas, write a ward, aol ' rubs ii out oram;but neither the ban. II : which, writes nor tao) words, i-an t Ve fonna ' l.y touch. Only the phantom can obliterate what the pliuutom ban written. A Washington correspondent relate the following incident of Fernando Wood: "Fermindo Wood came down to the House a few days since in a 'colored' car. A friend who was in the car saj that there were but two white gcutlcmen in th ,ar, and Fcruuudo Wood was one ot them. , He went deliberately into the car,and while there expressed lim cutiteuipl for the color ' phobists who are afraid to ride in a negro cap or ashamed to shake hands with a colored nun upon the streets. He claims th it hit views ou the -hi very question are not af fectcd in the Ii''wst oegee by any pro judiee against the blank man, and that he due pises the politicians who make war oj on the black race ou account of their color Ho iuu.st then des4ie the buU of his par- ty. IIonst'lioMDcflnllons. Hum; the people where children hnveV thoir own way and mairied men resorb whet, tli' y luxe mwhiTo c!s to keep lien selves. ViU'i ti n wmcm whn iatxpected to Ipurrliu-e without means, aud sew on but- ' tons to keep lici.-ct . JtAHY 1 lie thiu on acoonut of wlioli its muther hhould never go to the opera, comH(ueutly never have a now bat. Dinner the meal which is ex pooled to be iu exact readiness whanevor the mue ter of the house happens to eat it, whether ai twelve or half past three.. Washino Day the time when a wr man can throw a broom at a thieving dg, or say, "I woo V without being tliouUfc cross. .iHV8KHb the disputed umitury n n I 1 1

1 -A. . '. , W 'A. i A i "1 . A. A ) . ' f, J ' f . . i " L- , --8 1 , i, i ' A T J ' 1' - V 1 V tr .1 -J J, i V n ." 4' 'A. VOL AV ,. ; V MOUNT VERNON KlU'lBLtyAN, TERMS: t ' For ono year (invariably in advance)$2,00 Fur six mouths. . 1,W "7;'j TEaMS OF ADYEBTISINO. (One square, 8 weeks, 1,00 pno squui-o, 3 months, . , 8,00 One square, 6 months, ' , .. . ,50 One square, 1 year, , G,00 Ono square (changeable monthly) 10,00 Oliangeablo wockly, 15,00 Two squares', 3 weeks, . . 1,75 Two squares, 6 weeks, , , 8,25 Two squares, 3 months, ' 8,25 Two squares, 6 months, ' - ' " 6,75 Two squares, 1 year, 8,00 3'hrco squares, 8 waek.s, '. 2,50 Three squares, 6 weeks, 4,50 Three squares, 8 months, 6,00 Three squares, 6 months, ' 8,00 Three squares, 1 yenrt" '-' ' 10,00 Due-fourth column, chan. quarterly,1 15,00 One-third ..' 22,00 Ono-hnlf " ' " 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 ;:' 7.:" "FALL IN." . Fccj sec; yon gleaming liuo of light, , , Tke onemyV bayonots bristle bright ! t), boys, there'll be a fight to-night, Fall in! ' . . ; ,,7 . Jnder theso woods of frozen 'arch, " ' . Tinder the night sky's icy arch, It ends at last, the dreadful march; - Fall in! Fall in ! no bivouao to-night; Beneath tho stars so still and bright, The bristling bayonots glitter whito; Fall in ! Fall in ! we're hungry, bruised and torn. With snow and ruin, beatpn and worn, ( Yet "ready for duty," we've proudly sworn, Tallin! A seeded of Praams 1 Under our ayes, 0 see, how softly scoiu to rise, Tho hills of homo, aud her summer skies'. ' Fall in ! 0, say, for home? for tho fair face prest, Close to the, heart 'ncatk tha ruggql uesti The facetof.tho ona wo love tho best; Fall in! f), say., Tot a flash the brown face pale, The quick young uerves iu their warm , We quail, To wee the thud of the leadco hail f Fall in! The storm of f hell and bullets whirr, The clash of sabre no fear can stir; Tho fight for freedom, for home, for her 1 FaU in J- ' ' v '"' Ever with steady stop we go, IVith rifles roady in serried row, Into tl)3 face of the insolent foe, Fall in ! Cur hearts up-lcap in passionnte pain, O, see, thoy fall our heroic slain, The enemy's masses charge and gain; .Fall in!, ,. Fall in 1 the eager buglo beatj , Fall in I march on, with prescient feet, Sn it,) low the foe whero tho armies meet; Fall in ! ' ''. . " . . . To front ! its ranks are red and thin, Tho victor flauuta his banner of sir; O, comrades, forward ! to dio. or win: . Fall in I M. C. A. ' Compliment to Counti y Boys. One of the leading business men of our itywhoh"s accumulated over a milliou f dollars and is building a roside'ieo cost- ing'a quarter of a million paid ono of the 1.1 atet ofl'-hnnd compliments to country l iys that could be bestowed.' He i was tu king of business matters generally and a iiung other thiogs sprko of clerks and ihf scareity of good solid young mon oc- ?.if onod by tho war. He siid that thero wcte plenty of young men in fino cloth cal ingfor situations but they did sot suit ih m. He preferred a very diflfcront kiud ot stock that come from the country in rivgh clothes, for something coulof.be ni: de out of them. But such young men h d generally gone into the army, while ti e more pretending olass that have more c cthes than brains have remained behind. ; e spoke of country boys that soon made c erku worth fifteen hundred or two thou- si nd a year, and yet who had volunteered out of a sense of duty, but whose eommuta-- ..n t, ..m i. i i hem had h i not felt it wrong to influence i am against the service of their country. ''. he best he could do Wan to say to thmii ; at it they como back to his employ wtili-u t any bad habits, he would receivo them u; advanced salaries. ; .. . , - Let no country boys," there foro, think tin t it is 'neccssarr to imita'to tho young t'i. ocs of the towu io dress and frivolous h. I its toinsure respect and good situations.' It s plain industrious youn persons, of g'.id souse, sober habits, and foraplous hi'iesty that are in demand with all solid tu. Ties men. No matter how poor, or uw lueaV your Jc!othe, if you have the pti cnal qualities above indicated the true bub boss man will sood pcrceire them and give you the preference, Cin. Gaicltc. "I pncsi you are right, in taking , that vicw o((ha case," sqid M Bartop. ' 1 ' i Aristocracy v Democracy. I has often been found that far-sighted minds see at a distanoe what, perhaps, thoy might not see so well if nearer. PcTocqueville certainly gave a better analysis of our Institutions, and closer predictions of their tendencies, than any American ever did; and now Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden, at the late great meeting at Rochdale, have made some points Which ought to be brought to the notice of very American Noath and South. Could our Northern masses see the truth as these true English Domocrats do, tie Rebellion would be crushed in three months. Could the five millions of laboring whites at the South, who are fighting to confirm the yoke of two hundred thousand slaveholders (or loss) upon thoir own necks, see- it, the j would hail our armies as delivers.And yet, strange anomaly, tho allies at the North of tho slave aristocracy dare to oall themselves Domocrats, and under that disguise to mislead tho laboring men of this country. Let every working man pondor well the eloquect words of the two great Democrats of England, John Bright and Richard Cobden, who see that the North is now fighting tho battle of Domooracy for the whole world. ' ' AN ARI8TOCRATIO REBELLION. Eitraot from Mr. Cobden' 8pach at BochiUle, Kor. 'lb, I863.J "Is it not astonishing that in tho face of faets like these that any one should have the temerity, with any regard to decency and self-respect, to get up in the House of Commons and say that secession has been upon a question of free trade and protection Lcughter. Well, this is a war to perpetuate and extend human slavery. It is a war not to defend slavery as it was left by their ancestors, I mean a thing to bo retrained and to bo apologised for, it is a war to establish a slave empire, loud cheers, where slavery shall be made the osrncr-stono of tho social system, whero :t s'jallbe defended and justified on scriptural and on ethnological grounds. "Well, I sa3-. God pardon tho men who, in this yoar of grace 1803, should think that such a pro ject as that could bo crowned with success. Cheers. Now, you know that I have, from tho first, never bolicved it possible that the South couldsucceod, a.id I have not founded that faith meroly upon moral in stincts, which teach us to repudiate the very :dea that anything so infernal should euc coed. No, it is becauso in this world the virtues and. the forces go together, and the vices and the weaknesses aro inseparable Applause It is therefore, that I felt certain that this project never could suc ceed. For how is it? Here is a conimun ity with nearly half of its population slaves, where every working man is a free man It is as though Yorkshire and Lancashire wero to ontcr into conflict, and it was understood that in tho case ef one all the la borers who did tho muscular work of the country, whether in the fiel I or in the factory, whether in the rords or in the domestic establishments in the. ono case you would have all tho bone and muscle the sinow of tho country, eliminated from the fighting population, and tot only eli minated from tho fighting population, but ready to take advantage of this war either to run away or fight against you. How could a community so circumstanced fight against a neighboring conntry whero ovcry working man was fighting for his country how could tho ono have a chance if left to physical force wi thout the moral considerations? That is tho condition in which these two sections of tho United States are now placed. In the one case you have a condition in which labor is hdld honorablo. Dave we not heard it used as a reproach by some people who fancy themselves in alliance with the aristoeracy some of our writers who would lead us to supposo they are of the aristocratic order? Now we hear it used ai a stigma against the North that their president, Mr. Lincoln was a "rail splitter." But what docs that prove with regard to the United States, but that labor is held in honor in that country. Hear, hear. And with such a conflict going on, and with such a result as I feel no doubt will follow, is it fair to speak of such a contest as that, and say that it is a struggle for empire on the ne s'de, and for inde- pecdenu'eo on tho other; Loud applause. 1 say it is an aristocratio rebellion nRainst democratic Government. rChoers.1 That is the title I would givo to it; and in M hiBtory when you have had the aris-iocracy pitted jgainst tho pcoplo iu a physical force contest, the. aristocracy have always gone down under the heavy blows of the democracy." '. Cheers. ". AN INSTRUCTED DEMOCRACY. (Extract from Mr. Brlght't apwoli at Rooclidnle, ..... J'ot. 23,180 Look at the' power which the United States have developed. They have brought more men into the field, built more ships fjr their navy, they have shown groater ; ' ' - i i ' ! ' MOUNT: resources than any nation in Europo is capable of. Look at tho ordor which lias prevailed. Their elections, at which as you see by the papers 60,000 or 100,000, of 1 quarter of a million perse ns voted, in a given State nre conducted with less dis order than you have Been lately in three of the smallest borough! in England hear Barnstaple,Vindsor and Andover. Laughter and cheers. Look at their in dustry. , Notwithstanding this . terrible struggle, thkir agriculture, their manufuo tures, and commerce proceod with an un interrupted success; and they are ruled by a president, not chosen, it is true, from some worn outroyal or noble blood hear, but from tho people, and whoso truthfulness and spotless honor have gained him universal pra;so. Loud cheers. The country that has ben villified through half the organs of tho pross in England during tho last three years, and has been pointed out, too, as an example to be shun ned by many ot your statesmen, tlfat country, now in -mortal strife, affords a heaven and a homo for multitudes flying from the burdens and the neglect of the old government of Europo. Cheers. And when this mortal strife is over, when peace is restored, when slavery is destroy ed, when tho Union is cemented afresh for I would say in tho languagn of enc of her own poots, addressinghis country, Tbe grave's Dotting whore traitor handa shall lay in fearful aula thy muraared oorsa away. Loud cheers. then Europe and England may learn that an instructed democracy is the surest foundation of government, and that, education and freodom are the only sources of true greatness and true happiness among any people? The honorable member sat down, amid continued cheer ing. Compensation for doing Eight. ' The Baltimore American opposes the demands of the slaveholders of Maryland who ask payment for their slaves that may bo emancipated, on the ground that they have enioved already, for a number of yents, privileges which' existed in violation of right, aud that they ought to be Batisficd with their gains in the past,without pleading for damages. It likencs their caso aptly, to that of the proprietors of gamb' linghouses, which wero once authorizd but afterwards suppressed, by law in France. It would be monstrous to say that the keepers of these gambling hells could justly have claimed compensation for their "losses" from tho honest labor ing people of France. So of the slave holders, says tho American: if the Fronch government had suppressed private gamb' ling housos only to secure a monopoly of similurdcns carried on by the nation, then the private owners might have had a case, but not otherwise. "We do not propose to take private property for public use. We simply pro pose to discontinue those laws, eoacted for the boncfit of slaveholders, whereby we secured to them the power of tho State to sustain a system of oppression. ' Because they choose to tako advantage of such laws it docs not follow that the innocent portion of tho community, which did not choose to invest in slave, should be com pelled to pay so dearly foj the privilege of making free institutions. "Slavery is a political insti tution, the creation of the law1 and subject at any time to bo repealed out of existence Tho Constitution describes it not as property, but as a "relation." This 'relation' does not constitute a property; it is simply a right to disposo of the labor of the slave coupled with the duty of caring for him. It is in fact a contract resulting from the arms of tho law. The law ceases to rccog- tnizo that form of contract for labor, and both slave and master find it neaossary to resort to tho ordinary method. Tho 'relai tiou ceases to exists, but no property is thereby destroyed. Tho admission of the right to compensation in such cases would eternally clog the wheels of human prog ress. JNo reformation ot society could take place without the permission of tUe beneficiaries of the obnoxious system in tended to be removed." What the American thus asserts of slay cry iu Maryland is true of tho institution in all parts in the Union. It existed only by virtue of special laws, which protected a very small portion of the people in the exercise of an oppressive privilege. The exercise of this privilege is found to be injurious to tho general welfare, fatal to publio order and morality, and inimical to the Union on which rest law and order, and the future liberty and welfare of this continent. Slavery is proven, af.er many years' trial, to be a pestiferous breeder of violence, immortality, unlaw I ul ' ambition and treson. Therefore, tho American peo pic, made wise by puncring, tako away from this mischievious privilege theproto tioa it has had from the laws and at once it fulls to the gronnd Unless he has the whole power of tho stato at his ' tack, a slaveholder is helpless to catch his runaway slave; for not only has he no recognized riL-ht to kidnap, but all humane and Chris tian persons are ready to stand between him aud the man who wants to bo l'reo, It would be absurd to say that a commu nity or a cation has not a right to prelect itself against an eil which attacks 'its life; but it would od foolish to leava that protection or guard imperfect. T If svavery i biuuiu. w. iu, vuioD, vnu to ttie VJ5RN0N; OHIO .TUESDAY, :)AUCiI !':.', I8C4. properly i I ml . advancemen' of the states, . then it U our duty as a nation, to adopt every measure, without dulay, to butiihh tho system forever Ironi our realm. We have freed the slnvcx under tho war-power; the Btatos, as they return to their allegiance, prepare to adopt anti-slavery constitutions; and tho nation should crown tho work by enacting that under the Constitution, which is the supreme hw of the laud.no human being shall ever bo held as a slave iu this country. Thus we can clinch the uail; and if the loyal mon ot the slave staten aro to be believed, freedom and loyalty are not sale in the south till the natiou has thus formally and forever banished slavery. Ar. V. Evening 1'ott. . Soldiers, Eapt and West. The Western Statos have shown commendable alacrity in filling' up their quotas as pallod for genorally without tho re quiremunt of a draft. They havo volun-tcrrcd promptly and fought nobly, aud all patriotio voices are louu in their praise. But it is not sufficiently considered that wo have to-day a Vory largo for o afloat, rocruitcd wholly by volunteering, and almost entirely from tho loyal seaboard States New York aud Now England have certainly not less than Fifty Thousand men today in the naval service of their country; mid have subtracted just so much from the fighting force of those States. In other words, if these had not bceu needed on water, they would havo largely swelled our contribution to the land forces of the Union It dooi not seem to be sufficiently con sidered that tho proportion of young mon that js, of persons between 20 and 45 years of age is much greater in the West than in the East. Thus, where there aro 150 males between 25 and 45 years of ago out of evory thousand inhabitants in Rhode Island or Vermont, there will be at least two hundred and fifty males between those ages to the thousand inhabitants in Illinois or Kansas. Hence, certain Copperhead organs aro perpetually parading an alleged disparity between the number required from each Congressional District iu the East and in the West respectively, m also in this city and in the rural districts ofom Stato. Tho well-known reason is that the City f nd tie Young West aro relatively full of young men, whom enterprise has drawn thilher from their father's farms in rural New York or New England. Vermont and Northern New York aro respec tively the parental homes of thousands of our youth who have volunteered from this City and from the Northwest. In every case, tho proportion of the able-codied population called out is exactly the same; but whore half the young men born in one section havo migratod to othor sections, they will be drafted from the latter, which will send a larger number (though no lar get proportion) of its inhabitants to the war than will the homes of their childhood This is tho simple and conclusion explanation of a discrepancy which disloyalty has sought to pervert to its own base ends. iV. Y. Tribune. Tbe Talk About Candidates. The New Bedford Mercury is reminded by tho New York Tribune's manifesto against the rcnomination of Mr. Lincoln, of tho remark by Theodore Parker, tho American edition of his life, that "Greeley is not fit for a 'eadcr. Ho is capricious, crotchety, full of whims and wrong head' ed." Tho Mercury then adds the following sound comments on the general question "We do not proposo to get into any heat in retorence to the question ot the next Presidency. The Baltimore Convention in Tune next will settle who is to be the candidate of tho Uuion Republican party, and he will have our cordiul support. But wo aro very decidedly of tho opinion now, that it is wise to let well enough alone that, as Mr. Lincoln has been patriotic, hor.est and fiithful. deserving of all, tho plaudit 'well done, good and fuith- lul servant, it is tor the interest ot the na tion, instead of trvin? whether Homebody else might not do better, to continue him in omce. Added to this are other reasons of which we may speak hereafter; but one., conclusive to our minds, is, that the people, who have no particular axes to grind, who are not solicitous for a new deal of offices, and a new distribution of contracts, prefer Abraham Lincoln, as the next candidate How to Polish Shirt Bosonn, A correspondent of the American Agri culturist gives the following direction iu reply to the complaint of "Mrs. Pry," who can not make her nusbanu s suirt Losoms and collars look nice, for poli -thing linen as it is done iu tho chops. Ho seems to know a good deal about it, for a man. "iho first thing is to wash them clean then starch. . A lit t'o puro spermaceti or dissolved gum Arabic in tho starch will improve it, but havo the starcli thick, and work it into the linen thoroughly, , When in a proper condition, uso the common sad iron to emoth them and get them into shape the same as though thoy were not to be polished. I woifli say you can not polish linen on a soft cloth. Take a pioce ot hard wood (I use birch) say ton by fourteen inches, or size of ft shirt bosom, and piano it even and smooth. When you uso tho polishing iron lay tho linen en the board, without any cloth uudemcat b: . a liberal supply pjf el.boat grcaso is iodispeu- taoio to uiuko tue uuAj iuok erst rate. . . THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN,'" A clever old woman,' A funny old woman, 1 ""A wonderful woman, ' ; '' A very uncommon ' 1 '' ' Good-nuturcd old woman was she; ' And the apples she sold, ' And the stories she told,' To young and to old,' : 1 ' . Through lieut and through cold, Were us fuLiiy and nice as could be. Spring, summer; and autumn, And winter she brought 'em, ; And all the boys bought 'era, ; . Because they all thought 'em ,, ; , The cheapest and nicest on earth; And becauso 'twas a troat, While wo waited to eat Ilor apples so sweet, To hear her repeat . Her talus, full of humor and mirth. At the corner of tho street, An old box for a scat, With a mat for her feet, And an awning complete, 'Neath a broad-spreading cotton umbrolia, She was thcra all tho day, Knitting, knitting awuy, With a kind word to say To all who would pny For her apples so rich and so mellow. Always early and late, With her luseious freight, And her knitting sedate; On thd corner she sate ' la all sorts of weather and times, With old Mothor Mack; Trade never was slack,-' Her stock knew no lack, ' And sho had a strange knack Of getting our pennies aud dimes. Merry' Museum. For tlio American Messongof. What A Little Flower Said. ""nil many a flower in born to blush unseen, And wiuu its sweetness on the uuert lir." a poet many years ago. IJut , i;tti ,., ; .l.J So sang there was one littlo, flower, born in the desert and brcathiug, out its fragrance which was not useless, , It caved a valu-able'lifo, and taught a striking lesson. M nngo Park the traveller and discovery in Africa found himself sick, weary, and sat down in a desert place to die. There was no friend to comfort him, no food to nourish him, no kind voice to cheer him. He thought of Scotland his dear hotii0 far away. Ho thought of his frionds, and exclaimed, "O God, must I die here alone in this desert waste?" Despair seized upon lim. He had not strengtU,to rise. Just at that moment his eye cough, sight of a tiny flowor. He looked at it inhaled, its fragrance, and admired its beauty. It boo mod to say, "Listen to mo. I am alive hero in this desert, God made mo. and sent mo hero to npeak to you. I live in this lonely soot, and why may not you ? Does God take more care for me. a little flower, than for no, a littlo flower, than for you, an immortal man? Chcor up; don't give way to despair. Trust in Providence and make ono more effort to live; for if God so clothes tho grast of tho field, will ho not much more care for you?" : Such was tho sermon which this little flower preached to Mungo Park. Ho listened to it. The weary and despairing man took heart. Ho thanked the little flower tor the sermon. Perhaps he kissed it. Then made ho another effort to rise and pursue his journey, believing that God had still a blessing in storo for Lint. He had not proceeded fur cro tho sound of a fcmalo voice, singing one of her wild, melodies, saluted his ear. It drew nearer Soon he saw a native woman bearing a jar of wator. With instinctive fear sho at first drew back; but seeing bis sick aud wayworn appearance, she smiled upon him offered him drink,' and conducted lum ' to her cot, where she gave him milk and veg etables. ' The great traveller, after this re freshment, laid his tired body on the floor, aud sho sang him to sleep with one - of those wild impromptu melodies peculiar to those natives. So the littlo flower was ' not "born to blush unseen," nor did it "waste its swee-nsss on the desert uir." It was a memcnt 'o of God's presenco nnd , providence. Jl saved a precious life by its silent but im ' rcssivo teachings. .Who could have l. 1.1 iL... ... II il. !.. - !..-... 1 1 iiuu-'ub mm. t'l email a mini; iu no uuseurc I i place, a thing so frail; so soon to die, could have been an -instrument in Hod's j hands of saving man's life? Yet the was its mitsion. , j tie, a march, o." any important event of ' So the weakest and, the frail est may do! the war, whero tho friend of our cause, the tbmething for God aud . man. , Let the black man has not been found truthful flower preach to us, as it did to Purk. Hjand helpful, and always devotedly lo;al. will tell us never to deepnir, never to "do-1 spiBe tho day of small thing." It will ro-buke tha feeling which says, "lam noth- ng. : What good can I do in the world 7 I am so obscure, bo neglected, souonotiod that wy influence is nothing." h, bain ..' I ! f - ! - nJ--tV-r listen U thul flower. I rSowaid mit that tiny limit hid fur away iu the desert. It waited iU opportunity. It was willing toblwmi and breathe without any eye kave (jod'a to look upon it. Wheu the opportunity came, it spoke; and what words of comfort and encouragement it uttered. Be like that flower iu your paticut waiting, in your accepted obscnr ty. What though you bloom not iu the grand .cardan of souio rich man, where many pyu.4 come to admire and many tiiiguo to raise your bounty. If you aro where God has planted you, stay there in meek endurance and tihed your odors to his praise, Should 4ome poor sufferer cross -your path nnJ cist a dejected look upou you, be rcud with some cheering word. Speak to him of God's love and mercy, and thus scud him ou his way rejoicing. Never say that you are too small or too obscure to do Buy thing for God or man. Remember too that lis who made the flow or and cares for it, cures also for you Have you thought of this? Have you acknowledged your dependence and been thankful? Liko that flower, you flourish iu the morning, but ure cut dowu iu tli" uveniir. Have you laid ' this to " heart. and miulo line preparation foi uternity ? This tiny flower rabuked the despair of the sufferer, vnd t.iught him to put his trust in God. Uow oftou have wo been tempted to exclaim, "God hath forgotten us-" Bui how often has he nppoared fur us when deliveranco or help soumeJ impossible. ; Tho littlo flower rccms to say, '-If God so clothe nie, wilf ho not much more clothe you, Oyc of little faith." Tiujx the C'ui d I Pi,r. A Birthday Present- "Mi t' er,whcn you in ike me n y 'lirthdny Present will vou please give mo a part ot it in money?" "Why so, my sou?" "I waut to subscribe for Tho Child,s Paper or the American Messenger, I don't caro much which.' "You alruudy have a copy of each, which your father subicr.bsd tor; why suuld y u wish for uioroi" 'Moilicr, 1 will tell you, I want to ire it to John Page.., "What, to that liny who tie;ijcd you so unkindly a few days a,()i aI1 j yuU Slli,l vim Would 'never speak to him again?' "Yes, dear mother." '"What has .produced this great change produced tins great chan-'e in voiir feelings?" James cast dou his I eye's for a moment, as if thiukiug huw to explain himself, and thou said, "I have j felt tery tarry for saying thut and for feetl wij to John, tot lie hits no kind mo.hcr to teach him, as I have; and when ti prayed last night, i remembered I mm not furyte intj those who 'trespassed azainst mo,' Lor Living my enemies, as Christ tells us to; and I felt that I had no right to expect God wou d forgive me my sins. Thou I determined to try and 'do good' to John and wholly forgive him. Then I folt hap py, and went to sleep. Now, mother, will you grant my recjuest?" "Yes, my dear boy, with great p'easure for 1 cannot tell you the happiness it give? me to find that your conscience is tenderly alive to the scuso of duty, and that yon arc actuated py the spirit of Christ. Bo ever thus guidod, my ton, and God will bices you. Hut why doyou wish to give ono of these papers to John; 'Hecaiihe I think there is so much in them to teach boys, aud that he would be more likely to read a paper than he would any book, even the liible, which aouie day I mean to try and iuduce him to study." HLU. The Army Become Abolitionists. Gen Garfield, of Ohio, in a speech delivered on the 2Sth of January in the Httise of Representatives, on the confiscation question, gave this account of the progress of opinion in the army of the Coiled States, of which ho was lately an officer. "Iromeniber ti havo said to a Irirnd when I entered the army, 'You hate silvery; so do I; but I hate disunion more. Let us drop the slavery iiestion and fight tosustuiu the Union. When the supremacy of the government has beenre-ulab-lishod, wo will attend to tho other question.""I started out with that position taken in good faith, as did thousands of othet of all parties. But the phantom met it every, where, in the camp, in the bivouac, ou tb, buttle field, and at all times. It was a ghost that would not be laid. Slavery was both the strength and weeklies of the enemy- Mb strength for it tilled his fields and fed his legious; his weakness for iu the harta of slaves dwelt dim prophecies that their deliverance from bondage would be the outcnniit of the w r. "Tho negroes cuuio from the cotton field thoy swain rivers; they climbed mountain!-they la mo through jungles, in the dark- 1 .., ..P.I , . . ... .. uess auu sinrnis ui lie iilL'lit. to tell ut 1 II I the enemy was coining hero or comint thero. They wero our trim friends it: every ewe. There Iiim hardly been a but The c.Tnvietion fmnml itMlfnnnn ifn. of every soldier that, behind the rebel army of soldics, the black army of laborers wus feeding and sustaining the rebellion, and there 0011101 be no victory till its main sup. port be taken awsy, a NO -20 ;. r I, -ifT-ii.im-i r.riixsaani "0(l Iriiiotron the Mhr sidej font tu I-me Unit this fs all abolition War. It jot pliwKfl to say so I prant it TLe rapid current of events has inada the array of tho republic an ulmlitlog army. I cab Smith the rnnks a thousand men who aro ia; favor of sweeping away skuory to every doXeu that dcslftj to prererva It. They liavit been where they havd Seen its male? olence, its baleful effect upon the country and the Union, and they demand that it shall bo swept away ; 1 1 - ' , , A Curiosity. : . , Last week w fotiud a diamond in. the, gutter. Here it 1 a plect of brightness, aud beauty picked out of tho sewer. Item nl'taji who ahull say that silkeopurubs may n t le made out of sew's entt? . ' "Wo aould thcroforeioaruiistly call tho attention of Congress to the faot that this U only one way id which this slavery qurt tion may be deeiaively and permanently settled by universal emancipation, and that now is the epiwtuuity fjr this great achievement. This way is-pointed ot in the Federal Constitution, and is Blm'pty-an amendment of that instrument, (tWar- inj Slauery abvlahrd throughout the VnileJ SMet. ' . :: .'' m " , ' . "Here, (hen, the amendmehUiiggeatod, passed by a two thirds vote in ach Hour of Congress, and ratified by the legislature" or by convention of three fourths of the. Suites in the Union, will abolish slavery at once and forever throughout the length aad broadth of the land. And why att The Institution, so long as it exist, j can never be any thine hereafter except asourca of mischief to all concerned It wefylnti tu the South it Jettroyed; t'U antfr, oe a founQiTof It'tleTTcateri, ore dt tKat 'Jt kit of it. Let Congress paw the amendment indicated, with a reasonable compensation to loyal slaveholders, and tho rati-. fication of the States will soon follow. . .. ... r "Lct'Congress. then, apply the remedy . ansreooJ, and, belore the eud ottbo year Una vexing uu perplexing qucsuou oi I clavery may bo settled conjtitutionallly,) ' doeisivoly, aud forever. j only way to settle it. So ! ahanow of u dpunt that tli or can there be a 1 ananow oi u uoum mm mo iu wnv this ball in motion in Conpres will be the coiumonding spirit of the Union restored, Leading Editorial m Ncio York IleraU ; Ee l (i. . , . . ; -, Numb. "I'm numb all over. My hand! an V feet tall asleep with out a moment's warn ing. What does it mean?" asked a la. , of uio the other day. 1 looked at her Jo amuzement. Could she possibly be so ob- tune as not to know the price she paid for nature's broken laws? "Mrs.," said I, iu a spirit of Chriatian frankness, "you arc living too fast. Five nights at the theatre this WJek, and five late suppers! Xature is givimryou a gentle hint. By ami by she will give you a blow, if you do not mend your ways." The woman colored, and said nothiug. Her face wa haggard with what sho callod her harmless dissipation. She had two little ones in a northern city, and all around her in Washington were sick and dying soldierrs; yet. she could not live, she said, without jhe , excitement of tho Stage. Kmb. That tells tho whole story. Thousands liko this poor woman are prei- ' ing on in the broad and downward way, beuumbed sul and bodyjby the overpani-pering of the cnses. Toe Spikits Hkatkk at their Tricks. An ingenious optician iu London h constructed au constructed an instrumcn', ' by means of which he executes all sorts of writing on the wal rapping undr the ta- ; lie, aud ti e various other startling pttr , formitnces which ennuing impostors 11-seribe to the agency of spirits. A hiU'l appears on tbe i-tinvas, write a ward, aol ' rubs ii out oram;but neither the ban. II : which, writes nor tao) words, i-an t Ve fonna ' l.y touch. Only the phantom can obliterate what the pliuutom ban written. A Washington correspondent relate the following incident of Fernando Wood: "Fermindo Wood came down to the House a few days since in a 'colored' car. A friend who was in the car saj that there were but two white gcutlcmen in th ,ar, and Fcruuudo Wood was one ot them. , He went deliberately into the car,and while there expressed lim cutiteuipl for the color ' phobists who are afraid to ride in a negro cap or ashamed to shake hands with a colored nun upon the streets. He claims th it hit views ou the -hi very question are not af fectcd in the Ii''wst oegee by any pro judiee against the blank man, and that he due pises the politicians who make war oj on the black race ou account of their color Ho iuu.st then des4ie the buU of his par- ty. IIonst'lioMDcflnllons. Hum; the people where children hnveV thoir own way and mairied men resorb whet, tli' y luxe mwhiTo c!s to keep lien selves. ViU'i ti n wmcm whn iatxpected to Ipurrliu-e without means, aud sew on but- ' tons to keep lici.-ct . JtAHY 1 lie thiu on acoonut of wlioli its muther hhould never go to the opera, comH(ueutly never have a now bat. Dinner the meal which is ex pooled to be iu exact readiness whanevor the mue ter of the house happens to eat it, whether ai twelve or half past three.. Washino Day the time when a wr man can throw a broom at a thieving dg, or say, "I woo V without being tliouUfc cross. .iHV8KHb the disputed umitury n n I 1 1